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25 Centimes - Ronse
| Issuer | City of Ronse (Province of East Flanders) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STAD RONSE KASBON VAN 25 CENTIEMEN De Secrétaris, De Burgemeester en Schepenen, Felix Pot Dr Delghust Druk. Leherte-Courtin. Ronse. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipal seal of the City of Ronse applied in mauve ink on the reverse as a validation stamp. |
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Ronse issued its own emergency fractional notes during the First World War, when the German occupation disrupted the national coin supply almost entirely. Municipal and local authority issues of this type — known collectively as noodgeld or monnaie de nécessité — proliferated across occupied Belgium from 1914 onward, each town effectively becoming its own monetary authority by necessity. Leherte-Courtin was a local printer, and the production quality reflects that: these were functional documents, not prestige issues.
The official seal substitutes for the security infrastructure a national printer would have provided. Forgery risk was apparently considered low — denominations this small were hardly worth the effort.